The Unintentional PMO Coach

with Sarah Shard

The world is experiencing a boom in the coaching industry. Gone are the days that the term ‘coach’ was only heard on the sports field! Whilst coaching has in fact existed in business over the years its often been limited to niche areas such as Executive Coaching, Sales Coaching and Career Coaching. In project management and more specifically PMO we don’t often associate our role with coaching which is such an untapped opportunity. In this presentation we will explore the coaching in its simplest form. By understanding what coaching is ( and isn’t) we can delve deeper to recognise and appreciate where as PMO leaders we can really have an impact on not only ourselves but our project teams.

0.75 PDU: Leadership

Live Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Each presentation will be available for 48 hours from live date and time.

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Sarah Shard

Sarah has over 12 years experience across Project Management, Testing and PMO. Her role for the last 7 years has been leading a PMO supporting a multi-million pound credit risk portfolio. With a strong focus on developing capability, Sarah has taken her coaching passion one step further by becoming a certified Life Coach. Her mission now is to open the doors to understanding and embracing the role that the PMO can provide in Coaching the next generation of Change experts! Sarah is also a practising coach, writer and speaker.

My current role as Project Specialist is to introduce and embed a Project Management system; I’m developing Project Managers from scratch.

My Manager says that I should focus on offering my opinions and recommendations, and being there to protect against mistakes or unnecessary distress. I’m being told to ‘tell’ people what to do directly, and outline all of my thoughts and opinions.
However, I see the value in coaching, and want to dedicate more time to listening and guiding the Project Managers to reaching the best conclusions themselves (and perhaps even learning from mistakes), but I’m worried that this will be seen as an unnecessary use of my time, and cause of unnecessary distress more widely.